This flyover video was taken this past Wednesday along the famous Kebler Pass near Crested Butte, Colorado.
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I wasn’t planning to summit the 3,155 foot Mt. Cardigan but it was there. It was pretty steep, rocky and muddy but the effort was worth the views.
I almost stayed home because of the rain but remembered that rain and fog can produce some promising images. I ran into rain, snow and fog at Grand Mesa National Forest. Grand Mesa is the largest flat-top mountain in the world near Grand Junction.
More from my recent trek up Zion Canyon to view fall colors.
The quick answer is that the sun stays up less during autumn. The leaves need the sunlight for photosynthesis and the trees use the sunlight plus water and carbon dioxide to produce sugars and then chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is green but when sunlight decreases during autumn, chlorophyll breaks down and other pigments take over. Colors like yellows, reds, magentas, oranges and golds appear in the leaves of the trees.
The amount of rain in a year also affects autumn leaf color. A severe drought can delay the arrival of fall colors by a few weeks. A warm, wet period during fall will lower the intensity, or brightness, of autumn colors. A severe frost will kill the leaves, turning them brown and causing them to drop early. The best autumn colors come when there’s been:
Kolob Terrace is an area in and around Zion National Park but at a higher elevation than the popular part of the park. It’s a great escape from the maddening crowds and shuttle buses of Zion Canyon. And Autumn arrives early and with a bang! This is the first post of three…….
The colors are disappearing fast at Zion National Park. Lack of rain here(rained once in last 2 months) has muted the colors.
Scene and sound along Zion National Park’s Virgin River this past week. Watch in HiDef at Full Screen
